Re: [Evolution] Flushing changes back to the imap server

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 14:29 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 20:55 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > When you view another folder, the previous folder's changes are synced
> > back.  This is the easiest way - much easier than quitting evolution. 
>
> I guess this is where I am hitting problems - I tend to leave one window
> permanently on a VFolder which shows unseen mail (excluding spam tagged
> mail).  The reason I do this is:-
>      1. It takes a long time to transition in/out of this VFolder
is that slower than losing all your message status?
>      2. I like to be able to see recent related messages.
>      3. The VFolder does not seem to pick up the threads properly when
>         it regenerates (I have "Include threads: All related" set on the
>         VFolder properties - but some messages seem to be dropping out -
>         maybe the messages are missing some thread headers, although I
>         have the subject threading gconf key set).
yeah probably a bug.  changing folders will also fix this.

> > I hope you're submitting bug reports for the crashes too - obviously
> > it shouldn't crash!
>
> If I can reproduce the crash.  Too often any crashes seem to be a case
> of "it just crashed" and so I can't put together a coherent bug report.
> If you wish I can do vague bugzilla reports, but when I can't work out
> what caused it to go, and am not offered bug-buddy dialog and can't see
> any cores around I tend to feel they don't give you much quality
> feedback :-/
Well if the stack traces are ok (i.le. there are some symbols in them), its worth submitting anyway.  Sometimes (rarely, but sometimes), we can spot problems from them.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer